The Impending Crisis
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The Impending Crisis
| Full title | The Impending Crisis, 1848-1861 |
|---|---|
| Author | David M. Potter |
| Published | 1976 |
| Pages | 638 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | David M. Potter’s Pulitzer-winning account of the thirteen years between the Mexican War and Fort Sumter — how a political system with every incentive to compromise ran out of ways to do it. |
Where I heard about it
- @typesfast’s thread — named in the replies to his question “What’s the best history book you’ve read?”, June 2025.
About this edition
The reply gave only the bare title. Potter’s 1976 history is the standard book of that name and the likeliest referent in a best-history-book thread, but Hinton Rowan Helper’s 1857 pamphlet The Impending Crisis of the South carries almost the same title, and the thread does not settle which was meant.
Connections
- What’s the best history book… (tweet) — the saved thread this recommendation came from.
- Abraham Lincoln · History · Institutions — where this sits in the corpus.
What links here
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